Bag holder



C. ANDREWS, JR.

Jan. 16, 1923.

BAG HOLDER.

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A TTORIVE Y6 Patented Jan. 16, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIoE.

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BAG HOLDER.

Application filed. February 10, 1917. Serial No. 147,875.

To all whom 2'2 may concern:

Be 1t known that 1, CHARLES ANDREWS,

J12, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the countyof lVinnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Bag Holders.'of which the following is aspecification.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide an improved bag holderof ample strength and durability for supporting a strainer or the likeand which may be collapsed into very compact form so that it will occupybut little space and may consequently be very easily and convenientlyhandled, packed and transported.

Another object is to provide as an article of manufacture a bag holderof such simple design that it may be used with different sized bowls andvessels and which is constructed so simply that it may be produced at acomparatively low cost.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a view in elevation of one side of a bag holder embodying myimprovements and being associated with a bowl. showing a portion of thebowl and bag in section;

Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of another side of the bag holder andbowl;

Fig. 3 is a top view of the bagor holder and the bowl, with the bagremoved;

Fig. 4 is a view of the bag holder detached from the bowl and collapsedinto intended for supporting bags of different kinds for variouspurposes I have in the present instance illustrated it in connectionwith holding a bag-like strainer. Accordingly, fruit, jelly or otheringredients to be strained may be placed in the bag and leftto percolateslowly therethrough into the vessel and the latter may be filled withoutthe contents thereof interfering with the bag, since the same issuspended a sufficient distance above the" top. of the vessel. Thevessel in connection with which I have illustrated my improvements is awell known form of straining bowl. The legs consti tuting a part of thestrainer support are, in the present instance, two in number and eachformed of a single strand of wire. These legs designated in general byreference character 6 are shaped at their lower ends to detachablyengage and be supported by the rim of the bowl 5 on'diametricallyopposite sides thereof and extend upwardly therefrom and are pivotallyattached at their upper ends to a ring member 7. .In the particulartorn: illustrated, the ends 8 of the wire strand forming one leg memberare inserted into a. tubular attaching or pivot piece 9, from oppositeends thereof, and this tubular piece'is suitably secured to the ringmember 7 as by means of extensions 11. from said piece 9 spot welded tothe inner side of the ring member 1n the manner shown. This is a simpleway of pivotally securing the legs to the ring mem her 7, but anysuitable pivotal connection may be provided for the purpose. Theportions of the wire strand adjacent to the ends 8 are shaped to providestops 12 which are adapted by contact against the periphery of the ringmember 7 to limit outward swinging movement of the legs on their pivotends 8. The lower end of each leg is shaped to provide hooked portions13which fit over the rim of the bowl, engaging beneath the peripheral edgethereof, as at 1 1, and being joined and held in spaced relation by across portion 15. Leg members formed in this manner may be produced verycheaply and serve to detachably support a strainer-supporting means suchas the ring 7 in a very substantial manner considering the purpose ofthe article.

The strainer proper may be in the form of a fabric bag 20 having itsedge 16 turned over a ring 17 so that when the bag is inserted throughthe ring member 7 the peripheral edge of the bag stifiened by the 7connection of the leg members to the bag supporting means the legmembers may be accommodated to bowls or vessels of various sizes. Also,by reason of the particular pivotal arrangement and the construction ofthe leg members, the bag holder may be collapsed into compact form. byswinging the leg members inwardly toward each other and passing one ofthem intermediate and beyond the spaced members or the other until theparts are in substantially parallel relation, so that they make acompact bundle, as shown in Fig. l. My improvements thus provide a bagholder which is supported Wholly and centrally above an open top vesselby leg members on opposite sides of the bag Which serve to support thelatter in a very substantial. manner. While I have shown a particularmechanical embodiment it should be understood that various changes inthe construction and design of the parts may be resorted to withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of the invention as expressed in theappended claims:

I claim 1. A bag holder con'iprisinp; a holder for the mouth of the bag,members for supporting the holder centrally above an open topreceptacle, each member formed of a single length of Wire shaped toprovide socket portions adapted to seat on the rim of the re ceptacle atcircum't'erentially spaced points thereon, a cross portion connectingand holding saidsocket portions in spaced relation, and an upright legextending from each socket portion to the holder and terminating in astop portion and a pivot end, and means pivotally connecting the saidends to the holder, the stop portions being adapted to bear against theholder When the lower ends oi the leg members are swung outwardly andthe leg members adapted to swing inwardly into close relation to theholder.

2-. A. bag holder comprising a holder for themouth of the bag, Wirelegmembers for supporting the bag centrally above an open topreceptacle, each member formed of a single piece of wire bent to providea pair of socket-like portions adapted to seat on the rim of saidreceptacle and having a media-l portion adapted to hold said socket likeportions in laterally spaced relation, the end portions ol the wireextending up Wardly from said socket portions in laterally spacedrelation to the holder and terminating in laterally bent pivotal. ends,and means pivot-ally connecting said ends to the holder.

CHARLEts ANDREWS, JR,

